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Delayed Answers

One year after one of the worst aviation disasters in Indian history, the most unsettling reality is not that the final answer remains elusive. It is that, in the absence of definitive findings, competing certainties have rushed in to fill the void.

Cleanest Shirt

For much of the past year, economists have been waiting for the American economy to stumble. It has been hit by tariffs, labour disruptions, geopolitical tensions and renewed inflationary pressures.

A relationship redefined

Xi Jinping at his meeting with Donald Trump on 14-15 May 2026 in Beijing referred to the Thucydides Trap, a metaphor that refers to the inherent tensions and perils when an established power is challenged by a rising power.

Dangerous Breach

The war in Ukraine has entered a more perilous chapter. For the first time since the invasion began, Russia has managed to breach into Dnipropetrovsk, one of Ukraine’s most significant industrial regions.

Trans-fat facts

Throughout the history of human civilization there are records of when food was responsible for the outbreak of diseases in epidemic forms.

Meetings on the margin

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to China has attracted a lot of strategic significance not because of the SCO summit meeting taking place in Tianjin but because of his scheduled meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping in an effort to recalibrate the frosty relations between the two countries.

Fragile Reset

India and Canada have taken a cautious but necessary step towards repairing one of the most bruising diplomatic confrontations in their recent history.

Detached Diplomacy

The latest White House discussions on Gaza’s future, attended by senior American officials and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, highlight once again how international diplomacy often imagines solutions in abstract terms, divorced from the desperate realities on the ground.